Oracle Blog

Newsletter 2.0

Wednesday Jul 22, 2009

A Sun BluePrints article describes how Solaris DTrace functionality can help with PostgreSQL database application tuning. The paper provides examples of database server operations that can be observed using DTrace probes.

Friday Jul 17, 2009

Sun Systems engineers describe deploying the MySQL 5.1 RDBMS on a Sun server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. In this scenario, a volume of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is mounted using CIFS as a repository for database files.

Thursday Jul 09, 2009

Volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can be published to a server running Microsoft Windows Server. A new BigAdmin article outlines the steps for this scenario, using CIFS or iSCSI with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases.

Wednesday May 13, 2009

Here's a new article from Sun engineers on the BigAdmin site for sys admins. Find out how to configure and deploy the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Oracle RAC infrastructure, using the Solaris OS or RHEL.

George Trujillo (Ty Valdez) and Steve Jones will offer a very detailed technical presentation designed for experienced UNIX/Linux administrators. The goal is to understand the installation, configuration, and management of MySQL on Solaris platforms. Also included are best practices for MySQL database, along with Solaris features that can leverage database management such as ZFS.